Subscript Minus Subscript Hyphen-minus

U+208B

Subscript Minus Subscript Hyphen-minus is the Unicode character ₋ at codepoint U+208B in the Superscripts and Subscripts block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
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UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
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How to Use Subscript Minus Subscript Hyphen-minus

To use the Subscript Minus Subscript Hyphen-minus symbol (₋) in HTML, insert the entity ₋ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ₋ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\208B';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u208B' evaluates to ₋. In Python source, write '\u208B'.

The character encodes to E2 82 8B as UTF-8 bytes and 208B as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8331.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026